Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

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There are sweet surprises awaiting many
an humble soul fighting against great odds
IN the battle of Il seemingly commonplace
life.
1t is not disgraceful to anyone who is
poor to confess his poverty; but the not
exerting ones self to escape poverty is dis
graceful.-Pericles.
The only doctrinal truth which Solo
mon insisted on, when he took the whole
world for his barren text, was, that call is
vanity. Bishop .Sandersoa.
When thou art obliged to speak, be
sun, to speak the truth for equivocation
is half way to lying and lying is the whole
way to hell William Penn.
The very word humanity" says Max
Muller, dates from Christianity" No
such idea, and therefore TO such term, was
known among men before Christ came
/. F. Clarke
/ will tell you what to hate Hate hy-
pocrisy, hate cant, hate intolerance, OPP
preston, injustice, pharisaism hate them
as Christ hated them-with deep, abid-
ing, godlike hatred.-F ". Robertson
"REMINISCENCES OF THE CONGREGATIONAL
by J. H. Warren, D. d.
The first meeting of the Congregational
Association of the State was held in
Marysville, May u, 1852. Four ministers
took part in its Observation-Disclosures
T. Thatcher, j. A. Benton, J. H. Warren
and J. T.. Benton. Mr. Thatcher being the
most patriarchal of the four was chosen
Moderator, and Mr. Warren, Scribe. A
constitution was adopted. On the second
day the Rev. T. Dwight Hunt, pastor of
the First Church in San Francisco, appeared
and took his seat as a member This meet
ing adjourned after electing j. H. Warren
Registrar, and j. A. Benton, Preacher for
the next meeting, to be held in San Fran
cisco, October 9th
This body was wholly ministerial
body, although the main object of its ex-
istence was to promote Christian work in
all its departments. There existed at the
| the State-one in San Francisco, one in
Sacramento and the third in Nevada City.
1t met semi-annually for five years-twice
it sat in Marysyille, five times in San
| Francisco, twice in Sacramento, once each
IN Nevada City, San Jose and Petaluma.
The spring meetings were in April and
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| served it as moderators were Revs. T.
Thacker, j. II. Warren, J. A. Benton, T.
d. Hunt, J. G.. Hale, S. v Blakeslee. H.
Durant, and J. E. Benton. The Scribes
were Warren, ]. A. Benton, Hunt, Pond,
Hale, Blakeslee, w. l.. Jones, Zelie, A. A.
Baker and NJ. Kellogg. The preachers
were Benton, Thacher, Hunt, Hale, Du-
rant, B. D. Henry, Warren, Baker, Pond,
kelie.
1t met for the last time as the {. Congre-
gational Association in Petaluma, April,
1857, when the constitution of the Gen
eral Association was adopted, after which
| the dissolution of the body took place and
made way for the new organization, the
| thirtieth anniversary of which was so
royalty celebrated recently in this city.
| The entire church constituency of the
Association numbered twelve churches,
which were located: three in San Fran
| Nevada City, Grass Valley, Mokelumne
Hill, Petaluma, Jackson, Oroville, Downie-
vile and Santa Cruz.
-Four of the above list have ceased to
exist. Eighteen ministers appear on its
ready mentioned as Moderators, Scribes
Rev. Horace Bushnell, D. D.; Rev. E. C.
Lacy, Rev. B. n. Seymour and Rev. Z. W.
Hines. Eight of the entire list are dead,
three are out of the State, one is retired
from the ministry and six still remain and
are in active service in the State.
The Association held all its meetings at
the same time and place with the Presby-
terry of San Francisco, for the purpose of
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| meetings in reference to the CARRYING on of
such Christian work of common interest to
both bodies as The Pacific (the pioneer
religious paper on the COAST, education,
temperance, Sabbath observance, Missions
| (home and foreign), etc. These two bodies
naturally affiliated in such work, inasmuch
as nearly all their members were sent to
! this State and commissioned for their work
by the American Home Missionary Socie-
| ty, of New York. The Association gave
up its entire sessions almost exclusively to
| the consideration of aggressive measures
of moral and religious work-next to no
| time was given to discussion of creeds and
theological questions.
In the spring of 1858, the Association
met i'll Nevada City. OF the body there
were present Revs. j. A. Benton, T.
HiChCi, L. w u. VI. I1dle, w -.
Pond, H. Durant, S. V. Blakeslee, t. D.
Hunt. OF the Presbytery, there were
Revs. l. III. Brayton, S. H. Wiley, Eli
Corwin. S. S. Harmon, J. Pierpont, E. B.
| Walsworth, S. B. Bell, j. w. Douglass and
w. w. Brier. At this meeting COM
mittee from each body presented a Joint
report on the subject of education which
| laid the foundation for the College of Cali
nd n IL,
| ity of California.
On all questions of reform, the Young
men Of the Association, and they were all
| young excepting Father Thatcher, were no
| conservatives
As early as November 1853, in its meet
| ing at San Jose, radical ground was taken
in favor of temperance. The report of the
committee, signed by Pond as Chairman
read thus:
WHEREAS In the opinion of this Association
the expediency of law prohibitory of the sale
| of intoxica ing drink has now been conclusively
proved by experience therefore
Resotred, That by our influence and efforts we
will aid to the extent of our power the agitation
| of this community in relation TO such law
| till we have secured it place on the statute
| book OF California
In April, 1854, it put on record its en-
| phatic protest against sectarian interior
ence with common schools, by saying:
That we will do all in our pc yer as
citizens to forward the establishment of
good common schools in our several local
| titles, neither assuming ecclesiastical con-
troll ourselves nor permitting others to
obtain any ecclesiastical control over the
State school fund, which belongs in COM
mon to all by virtue of their citizenship,
and to none by virtue of their creed"
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Slavery, etc.-Warren, Chairman-gave
no uncertain sound: Whereas, the great
| question of slavery is engaging the intense
attention of the churches and people of
the land; and whereas, we have reason to
believe that many are endearoring to in
vofve this State in this stupendous iniqui-
ty. resolved that We bear testimony, earnest
and decided, against this evil, and
as Christian ministers shall labor in our
sphere and to our ability against its en-
croachment in onr State and land"